> On Jun 24, 2016, at 11:17 AM, L. Mihalkovic <laurent.mihalko...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I like the watch-what-you-wish-for warning of unsafeCast.
I’ll try porting stdlib to the “UnsafeRawPointer.unsafeCast(to: T.Type)” syntax
and see how bad it is.
> I think it was really brilliant to introduce the extra step... basically
> echos the alloc/init dichotomy of objc, so it should feel familiar to people
> with this
Dave Abrahams advocated for this and it ended up making the memory model easier
to explain in simple terms that correspond to the API.
-Andy
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